CORTINARIUS. 5 [ 



/. 89. Hym. Eur. p. 385. Icon. t. 160. /. 3. Grevillea, vol. xii. p. 68 Telamonia. 

 (ringless form). 



105. C. paleaceus Fr. Pileus fuscous when damp, dingy 

 when dry, very hygrophanous, somewhat membranaceous, conical 

 then expanded, acutely or obtusely umbonate, at first silky with 

 superficial squamulose white villous down (veil), becoming smooth, 

 opaque ; flesh of the disc of the same colour, almost none at the 

 sides. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, 

 slender, toughish, undulated on the surface, externally and inter- 

 nally fuscous, paler when young, white-villous at the base, here 

 and there squamulose with white flocci, and white-ringed at the 

 apex. Gills adnate, broad, crowded, at first pallid-whitish, at 

 length cinnamon. 



Odour weak. Commonly acutely umbonate. It differs from C. iliopodius in 

 the stem not being tawny within, and in the veil being floccoso-scaly not be- 

 coming even. 



In beech woods. Cabalva. Sept. -Oct. 



Name palea, chaff. From the scales. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 92. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 386. Icon. t. 160. f. 4. Grevillea, vol. viii. p. 77. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. 

 Scot. Nat. 1883, /. 31. Quel. Grev. t. 113. / 5, t. 114. /. 4. 



Tribe VI. HYGROCYBE (typfo, moist ; 

 smooth or only covered with white 

 superficial fibrils, not viscous, but 

 moist when fresh, changing colour 

 when dry, flesh very thin or scissile ; 

 rarely more compact at the disc. 

 Stem slightly rigid, not sheathed ; 

 cortina thin, fibrillose, rarely collaps- 

 ing and forming an irregular zone 

 on the stem. Quite distinct from 

 Telamonia, but only by the -veil. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 386. 



I. FIRMIORES. Pileus somewhat fleshy, 

 convex or campanulato - convex then ex- 

 panded, obtuse or at length gibbous, mar- 

 gin at first incurved. Stem (for the most 

 part) attenuated upwards. 



* Stem white, cortina of the same colour. 

 . ** Stem and gills commonly inclining to 

 violet. In various species of the former sec- 

 tion there is a fugitive tinge of violet at the apex of the stem. 

 * Stem and somewhat obsolete veil yellow or rufous. 



head). PlleUS Hygrocybe. 



XL V. Cortinarius {Hygrocybe) 

 castaneus. One-third natural 

 size. 



